1. The Dame’s Rockets have bloomed here, and they are pretty.
2. Chris and I have been hiking a lot. We’ve seen birds (duh), rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks, frogs, a (biggish) snake, a bright red salamander, and little baby birdies. I also saw a beaver, but Chris was walking too fast so he missed it. That’s what you get!
3. I’ve been eating a lot of Nutella on white bread, which is delicious just like that. It’s my latest bad-for-you snack of choice.
4. Pencils with an edge to the lead are the best to write with. (That’s why mechanical pencils are good.) If I get a pencil with a perfect point, I sometimes have to scribble with it first before I write anything. I was especially picky about this in fourth grade—rewriting entire pages of homework if the pencil didn’t write right.
5. I’m happy about the new design I’m working on for my website. It’s not a total change, mostly just how the index page looks, and how the portfolio works. Even if it is super lonely around here, it’s nice to have a website to work on when I can’t draw.
I used to have to have my numbers exactly placed right on and within the lines of the page, and if they weren’t, I would correct them several times… even during timed math tests I would do this.
OH MY GOD… numbers. I especially hated wiggly number columns. I’d messily work the answers out on another sheet so that I could just write them neatly after, with a RULER.
what is wrong with us? mini-OCD?